[rescue] S/MIME and mutt

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

Can you use a command line client like openssl s_client to check the
certificates? If a chained certificate it has to have the intermediate
certificate in a particular order.

On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM Phil Stracchino via rescue <
rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:

> On 7/18/25 11:48, Stuff Received via rescue wrote:
> > On 2025-07-18 11:03, Phil Stracchino via rescue wrote:
> >> On 7/18/25 10:33, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> >>> Surprisingly, search.brave.com returns a useful result with their
> >>> blended "text snippets across sites" / "AI" feature.
> >>>
> >>> Searching for "mutt ignore certificate s/mime" will get you links to
> >>> discussions of the problem and how to fix it.
> >>
> >>
> >> Hmm ...  that only got me one useful-looking link I hadn't already
> >> found, to a 15-year-old discussion about mutt 1.5, and the one new
> >> suggestion it had to offer had no effect on the problem.
> >>
> >
> > This may be redundant but I searched with duckduck.go and the following
> > were returned:
> >
> >
> https://superuser.com/questions/614985/in-mutt-how-to-extract-key-from-a-s-mime-signed-message-to-reply-encrypted
> >
> > http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#enc-smime
>
>
> Yeah, I'm not even trying to extract the key at this point, only to
> verify the signature.  As far as I can tell, it is FUNCTIONALLY working,
> except that I suspect something in the chain disbelieves in the validity
> of the certificate.  And I've followed the instructions for setting up
> that trust ... and it still doesn't work.
>
>
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